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BIRTH AND INFANCY
Here is Miss Hollister again, vamping away in The Destruijer. The faintly wrinkled tights are a concession to the 1913 moral code of the movies.
brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn), and a young stage director named Cecil B. DeMille, to form the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. Above, Lasky is looking dismayed at the Hollywood barn that was their first studio. It stood at the corner of Selma Avenue and Sunset Boulevard.
ABOVE RIGHT
The year 1913 saw one of the first foundations of what is now Paramount Pictures, Inc. Jesse Lasky started his career as a cornet player, doing the vaudeville circuit with his sister Blanche. Wearying of the cornet (as who wouldn't?), he became a booking agent, later branching out as the producer of a series of tabloid musical comedies for vaude\ ille. With the money this brought him he financed a combination night club-review called The Folies Bergere. It was ten years ahead of its time— another way of saying that he lost his money. In the hope of recouping his losses he joined forces with his
BELOW
Lasky and DeMille decided to make The Squaw Man their first production. They bought the picture rights from its author, Edwin Royle, and persuaded Dustin Farnum, a famous star, to act in the film version. Below are the barn and the outdoor stage on the first day of shooting on The Squaio Man. DeMille, in the light suit and hunting boots, stands between the two tall cowboys in front of the stage a little to the right of the barn.